Hans Haffner
Hans Haffner (born November 8, 1912 in Nördlingen , † February 23, 1977 in Würzburg ) was a German astronomer , professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and head of the Astronomical Institute.
Life
Hans Haffner was born in Nördlingen in 1912 as the third of five children of pastor Christian Haffner and his wife Gertrud. He attended high school in Lindau and Regensburg . From 1931 on he studied at the University of Munich before moving to Göttingen in 1933 .
During the Second World War he was assigned to the newly founded Wendelstein Observatory for solar monitoring, where Haffner led the construction of this facility for the next five years. After the war he returned to the University of Göttingen . In 1953 he was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Hamburg .
Haffner was in South Africa in the 1950s and took photometric images of various star clusters as well as atlases of the southern sky at the Boyden Observatory in Bloemfontein . In 1960 he took over the chairmanship of the Astronomical Society . From 1962 to 1967 he was acting director of the Hamburg-Bergedorf University Observatory .
1967 Hans Haffner was appointed to the newly established chair of Astronomy at the University in Würzburg . He built up the chair and modernized the university observatory at the Keesburg .
In 1973 he lost his vision due to a brain tumor , which he was able to regain after the tumor had been surgically removed. After the end of 1976 re-blinded, died Hans Haffner shortly after his battle with cancer .
Honors
- The school and university observatory of the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium, Würzburg in Hettstadt is named after Hans Haffner .
- The asteroid (1894) Haffner bears his name.
Web links
- Hans Haffner on schuelerlabor-wuerzburg.de
- Publications by H. Haffner in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haffner, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1977 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |